License-tag fastener



March 11 1924. 1,486,719

A. B. ALDRICH LICENSE TAG FASTENER Filed May 25. 1923 atent er. ll, l

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LICENSE-TAG FASTER.

Application filed may 25, 1923. erial Ito. 841,447.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that ANTHONY BENNETT ALDRICH, citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of a Columbia, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in License-Tag Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to screw fastenings, and has special reference to a screw fastening particularly adapted to hold what are commonly called license plates or number tags for vehicles on the bracket usually provided for the support of such plates or tags. The invention thus is a screw fastening for license plates.

The ordinary form of screw fastening for this purpose is usually such as to acquire the use of a tool of some sort, either so to hold one part stationary while the other is being rotated, as is the case where the thumb nut and machine screw or bolt are employed, or to hold one part while the other part is being rotated, as is the case where stove bolts or ordinary bolts and. nuts are used.

@ne important object of the present invention is to provide a novel and improved form of fastening which may be very quickly applied without the use of any tools whatever, both part of the fastening being provided with finger grips.

It is a well recognized fact, among all users of automobiles, that whenever it is necessary to change or replace number tags or license plates, it is commonly a matter of very considerable difliculty owing to the fact that the ordinary screw fastenings used have the screw threads projecting beyond the nut used therewith, and these threads and the not itself become so rusted that it is dificult to unscrew the fastening, and in some instances, the nut and bolt are so oemented together by the rust, that it is impossible to remove them in the ordinary way and they must be cut or broken ofi'.

L second important-object of the invention is to provide an improved and novel two-part screw fastening for this purpose wherein the parts may readily be assembled without the use or" tools of any character, and wherein provision is made for fully protecting the threaded portions from the action of the weather tending to rust the same.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Fig. 1 is a view of a corner of the number tag or plate and portion of a bracket showing the device in use thereon.

Fig. 2 is a view of the device with the parts assembled, the view being to a very greatly enlarged scale, and disclosing the manner in which the number plate and bracket are clamped together.

Fig. 3 is an exploded view of the other parts of the screw fastening used herewith. is

In carrying out the objects of this invention, there is provided a pair of co operating members. @ne of these members has an externally threaded shank l0, and is provided at one end withla finger grip 11. The other of these members consists of an internally threaded socket having a cylindrical body 12 adapted to receive the threaded shank 10, this socket being closed at one end, and provided on the opposite end with a finger grip 13.

It is to be observed that these two finger grips may be or" any size, character, shape or form desired or found convenient and can be either plain, as shown in the rawso ings, or as highly ornamented as may be found desirable in the sales of the device.

The manner of utilizing the device may be seen by reference to Figures 1 and 2, wherein B represents the uusal bracket for as an automobile or the like, and N the usual number or license plate. It will be seen that the shank 10 of the first member is passed through registering openings in the bracket and number plate, a locking washer is being disposed on this shank under the head 11. This part of the device is preferably inserted from the front of the numberplate to the rear thereof, and projects rearwardly behind the number plate and bracket so that the remaining -part of the device may be screwed thereon after a second lockin' washer 15 has been placed in 6 ition. hus, it will be seen that the two ger grips form cooperating heads which serve to c amp the two locking washers and the number late and bracket firmly together, and t us prevent rattling. 10 It will be obvious that by raising of the finger ips on the two elements, these may be rea ily applied without the use of tools, and by raisin of the closed socket construction of t e nut member, the entire 15 length of the screw threadin which projects rearwardly of the num r plate is protected from the weather, and thus cannot accumulate any'rust, nor have its thread inii ired by accidental blows.

here as thus been provided a very so sim 1e and eflicient device of the kind descri d and for the purpose specified! Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

A fastening comprising a screw threaded '25 member having a transversely elongated; head arranged for gripping between the fingers, and a cooperating internally threaded socket member closed at one end and having a transversely elongated enlarged finger 30 gm at its other end.

n testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ANTHONY BENNETT ALDRICH. 

